Often times in our environment, C drives run into space issues and the C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder gets relatively large, upwards of 3.5Gb in size. Server 2008, R2 enterprise.
Per this forum, it seems ok to delete. I have no had issues doing so either, however, I am now wondering, if we have WSUS set up for servers to pull updates from, will deleting these automatic updates have any adverse affects. Also, why does this folder get so large at times? Just a windows "feature", or is something possibly misconfiged that I can look at?